Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Confusion
I'm a little confused about something. The politicians agreed to bail out the auto companies if they started to make more cars with better fuel mileage and were more "green." Now I read <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GAS_TAX?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">this</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The dilemma for Congress is that highway and transit programs are dependent for revenue on fuel taxes that are…
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Merry Christmas
I would like to wish all who come here a very Merry Christmas. May the blessings of the season shine bright upon you and may you be blessed with love and good cheer.
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Laugh Line
I thought I would bust a gut laughing when I read this news headline.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123004624819230097.html">Biden Says Stimulus Won't Include Earmarks</a><br />n<br />nThat's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
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Tired
This weather we have had lately really has me down. The paper <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/12/23/news/local/21-itsatadchillyweather.txt">says</a> that we have had only nine days in a row with temperatures that have not been above 27 degrees. They must really live in a banana belt. It hasn't got above 10 degrees around here in that same time frame and…
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Parenting
I know, with things the way they are I should be talking the economy or politics but this really caught my attention.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one…
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Money Supply
With the governments bailout of the financial sector for $700 Billion, the proposed auto bailout for a measly $15+ Billion and Obama's proposed economic stimulus package of who knows how many Billion, am I the only one worried about what is going to happen when all the money that is being printed by the Government…
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Values
<blockquote>In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test</blockquote><br />n<br />nAre these numbers better than they used to be, worse than they used to be or what? I don't know but there is more troubling information in <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/STUDENTS_DISHONESTY?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">this story</a>.<br…
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A New Day
<center>A New Day</center><br />n<br />n<blockquote>This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it, or use it for good, but what I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes this day…
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Decision
The Supreme Court has decided that there can be no nativity scene in Washington DC this year. No religious reasons are involved, they just can't find three wise men and a virgin.
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Cow Tax
<a href="http://capwiz.com/flfb/issues/alert/?alertid=12198961">EPA Proposes "Cow Tax"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Environmental Protection Agency issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on whether it is appropriate to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from automobiles under the Clean Air Act. In order to regulate automobile emissions, the EPA would first have to make a finding that all…